This week, the Wall Street Journal reported Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division, the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products. On the other hand, it’s kind of astonishing that Meta even opted to field such a massive virtual reality team for so long. Back in early December, the WSJ previously reported that Meta’s Reality Labs had lost the company over $77 billion since its inception in 2020. All that said, it remains to be seen if the push toward AI-powered “wearables” is any more successful than Zuckerberg’s infamous foray into virtual reality. More on Meta: A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens